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Riham Dawabshe dies, leaving one survivor of arson attack, Ahmad, 4

Riham Dawabshe, 26, the mother of 18-month old Ali who was killed in the infamous settler arson attack on her home in a remote Palestinian village five weeks ago, died Sunday night from injuries sustained in the firebombing. Riham had third degree burns on 90-percent of her body, and has been in a coma and on a ventilator since the July 31st attack.

Hers is the third death in the attack: Riham’s husband Sa’ad, 32, died last month while being cared for in an Israeli hospital.

The only survivor of the family, Ahmad, 4, has second degree burns on 60-percent of his skin and is improving.

Saturday, while receiving treatment at Tel Hashomer hospital, the largest medical facility in the Middle East, an infection in grafted skin spread throughout Riham’s body. Her organs began shutting down, her brother-in-law Nasser Dawabshe told me, speaking over telephone from her bedside. “Only her heart was working,”” Nasser said. Hospital staff then notified Riham’s family of her deteriorating condition, and assisted in arranging travel permits for the West Bank relatives into Israel.

Riham has already undergone several skin implant operations. Another grafting surgery was scheduled for Monday.

Ahmad Dawabshe being treated in Israel's Tel Hashomer hospital.
Ahmad Dawabshe being treated in Israel’s Tel Hashomer hospital, after sustaining injuries from a settler fire-bombing on his home in the West Bank village of Duma, outside of Nablus, on July 31, 2010. (Photo: Wattan TV)
Riham Dawabshe hospitalized in Tel Hashomer hosptial in Israel, following a settler arson attack on her home in the West Bank village of Duma on July 31, 2015.
Riham Dawabshe hospitalized in Tel Hashomer hosptial in Israel, following a settler arson attack on her home in the West Bank village of Duma on July 31, 2015.

Speaking to Wattan TV, a Palestinian health official who visited Riham confirmed Saturday the injured Palestinian mother was experiencing hypertension and organ failure.

Back in Duma, the West Bank hamlet where the Dawabshe family lives friends and relatives had already gathered at the home of Riham’s mother over the weekend, in expectation of news that her daughter has passed.

Riham will be buried in Duma alongside her husband and youngest son.

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Have the illegal settlements been rousted from their sleep at two in the morning by hundreds of IDF troops seeking the perpetrators.Have their beds been dumped all around the room and their furniture smashed and toilets soiled by the IDF.

Has anyone been arrested and brought to court and charged .Has anyone,s house been demolished.Have their relatives been arrested and charged with collaboration.

Oooop,s , sorry we are talking about Jews.They don,t do terrorism , right.

All the BS spouted by netanyahu and co about bringing the perpetrators to account was /is propaganda and zionist lies.

I just checked the post about the mother death on Ynetnews facebook page , and this is some of the comments i found (Facebook Auto Translation) :


Good riddance

One less whore

Too bad we wasted a lot of money treating her

Now she wont give birth to terrorists

A burned cockroach

Good news we need more like this

Finally

Didn’t she die before, was she resurrected, how many souls does she have

It is better than letting them live and become terrorists

I hope we hear good news like this every day

Thank god I hope the father also dies and the nurses and the grandparents, uncles and the
whole village . Amen

What a great thing to hear, one less of them

I think there are another kid hurt or something…..Lets wait

Finally some good news

Like Like Like Like

And all those who said this are grownups and one of the nasty comments are by a policeman!!

(Ynetnews is the online Israeli news website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s most-read newspaper).

How do we get the American/international public to read these comments from Israelis, is there a conspiracy to hide their true ugly nature from the world?

I’m not surprised to hear that Riham has succumbed to her fatal burns, from what I had read she was even more horribly burnt than her husband. Imagine, a month in agony from burns over 90% of her body, I hope that she was at least spared the knowledge that her baby and then her husband had died.

On a different note, why are the media not even mentioning the fact that hundreds of thousands Syrian refugees are forced to make a long and dangerous journey to find asylum in Europe, when they could easily walk the few miles into Israel – that is, if the Israeli government were willing to grant even a small number of them asylum, which they obviously have no intention to do. Shame on Israel – they sure know how to point fingers at the world for not taking in the Jews trying to escape the Nazis during WW II. And shame on the media for not calling them out on this.

Ynet has an English language page.
Here are the report and the comments:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4698297,00.html

Jon s
I was talking about the Hebrew Facebook page of ynetnews
Next time read before you open your mouth
I will post the link